Out here in the SF Bay Area it is a HUGE thing to take photos of your food. Except for the cheapest greasy spoons, I'm almost never in a restaurant where I don't see someone snapping photos with their cell phones. Since we go out a lot (3-4x/week) at all price levels, it is far from unusual. The more the meal costs, the more flashes are going off, every night. Taking food photos too often goes way beyond the "you two pose together so I can get a shot". People get up from their seats, walk around the table, not even noticing that they are in the way of the waitstaff. The tendency of most restaurateurs to cram in as many tables as possible doesn't help, either. Speaking as a customer, it is one thing to have a small cellphone flash go off. It is another thing entirely for someone to pull out a full-sized digital SLR and start taking flash pictures 2' away from you as you are trying to dine. Nothing like looking up at the wrong moment and getting a massive flash in your eyes as a stranger angles to get a shot of his 2" square of sea bass. Check the restaurant reviews on Yelp and you will find endless shots of food, often the same dishes, posted by various people. I have not yet seen the "stand on a chair" diner but I'm sure I will eventually! I don't mind low-key picture taking. I do it myself, and find it useful to see photos of food before deciding if I want to try a new place (of which there are thousands, where we live). But modern life shows us that there are too many people who go over the line and make it uncomfortable/unpleasant for others, and they simply don't care. If you as a restaurateur want to stop them, then you pretty much have to stop everyone from taking photos. When you get to the high-end restaurants, they don't usually have the same dishes anyway from week to week (sometimes day to day), so any photo is just a general representation of what the food will be like. In that case, a short slideshow on the restaurant's website more than suffices, and more restaurateurs should do that, IMHO.

We women are usually good about taking ourselves for check ups, mammograms, colonoscopys, etc, our men are not. Make it a priority to make that appt. for him, and make him keep it. Go with him. I wasn't as good as I should have been and I should know better. I'm a nurse. DH put it off and put it off. I bugged him, I cajoled him, I made appts and let it go. (One MD had the audacity to ask him why he felt he needed to be seen!)He never went back. He felt fine, he wasn't overweight, he was active. I was too busy caring for my dying mother. After spending a weekend with her after a long week at work, he came to me Sunday morning. He had just started a culinary arts program and had felt worn out. Now his feet were swollen. I took him straight to the ER, my worse fears were that this was the only way to get him to a Dr.(through the ER) He went without a word, he was scared. That was April. His heart was failing due to arrythmias. Its been a long road, but he is doing better. He has never seen so many Drs. and followed my advice more closely. It could have been worse. Make sure your DH is taking care of himself.

@User...you are correct...Spike ran That (The?) Homesite...which was the predecessor to the GardenWeb. I wasn‘t talking about cutting and pasting links. I was discussing hyper texting, I.e., highlighting in green (as I did your name). When you do this, Houzz sends an email, alerting you that someone either mentioned your name in a post, or was asking you a direct question. It’s why you received an email, telling you about my reply to you. You did not hyper text my name, therefor, Houzz did not alert me to your reply. I just happened to check the thread, and saw it. Hyper texting is easily done from an iPhone or iPad. I rarely use my computer. The iPad is how I interact with the internet, 99% of the time.

I cannot post or like anything on my iphone, I used to be able to around a year ago(?)-but now only on computer. I'm afraid to login on my phone and then also be locked out on my computer and have my name turn into a number indefinately-like some on here have experienced. I actually haven't taken the time to delve into WHY I cannot on my iphone-because it doesn't really matter that much to me, and the computer is enough for me anyway.